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A collection of 39 posts

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Friday Fun: Micro Weather Station

Friday Fun is back and this time we go micro!

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Friday Fun: How to Tweak a £10 HDMI to USB Capture Device

Got £10 spare and need a USB 2 to HDMI capture device? Well you are in luck.

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Tuesday Tooling on a Fun Friday: Bashtop!

Monitor everything on your Linux box with this great tool! It feels like I am working in a high tech 1980s control centre!

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Friday Fun: Commodore Coding Concepts

Learning to code in the 1980s wasn't too far removed from today. And here is the proof!

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Friday Fun: Light up a life!

Light up the lives of our key workers! Here is one project that we can build using arts and crafts materials. We will look at four common boards and how we can use them in the project.

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Friday Fun: Lockdown Projects

Bored and need something to do? Well here are a bunch of free tutorials taken from the pages of Linux Format magazine.

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Friday Fun: SPLAT THE CAT!!!

Make a Scratch game where YOU are the controller!

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Friday Fun: TinyGo on Arduino

TinyGo, what is it and how easy is it to use? Read on my friend!

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Friday Fun - Late Edition : Tiny Neopixels

Super tiny neopixel LEDs from Aliexpress, but are they any good? I took the hit for you!

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Friday Fun: Cheap soldering irons

I take two CHEAP soldering irons through their paces so you don't have to! Well unless you really want to.

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Friday Fun: Making an LED blink...with a Commodore 64

Make an LED blink using a Commodore 64! Yes this is 2020, and yes I am doing this for fun, with a little bit of learning too!

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Friday Fun: RC2014 Micro

I'm learning to write code in BASIC on a Z80 board from Tindie

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Friday Fun - Custom OBS Controller

Use OBS and need fast access to change a scene, start a recording or mute a mic? Then Keybow may be just what you need!

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Friday Fun - SMS Controlled Neopixels

SMS is the most available method of communication, it works across the world on every level of network. So why don't we use it to control some Neopixels connected to a Raspberry Pi? Using Node-RED and Nexmo we can do it!!

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Friday Fun: Cardboard Circuit

Build a working circuit with cardboard, slug tape and some light up parrots!

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Friday Fun: Summer Hacks!

17 Free projects to keep the kids busy all summer long!

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Friday Fun: Monitor your Pi with Anvil

Hey, you! Fancy writing a web app in Python? An app that shows live data from a running Raspberry Pi? Ok..read on!

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Friday Fun: Circuit Py-FUN!!!

Want the latest cool gadget to show off your skills at a conference? Well here is how we make it!

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Friday Fun: MicroPython Weather Station

Build a neopixel powered weather station and get your weather data in style!

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Friday Fun - Four New Projects!

Four more projects from the Linux Format archives. Shared with special permission from the editor.

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Friday Fun - ATtiny85 £10 Robot Challenge!

In this blog post we build a robot for as cheap as possible!

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Friday Fun - Neopixel Cinema Sign

Using a cheap micro controller and some NeoPixel LEDs we can make our own rainbow animated cinema sign!

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Friday Fun - Star Trek Desk Lights

Control the real world from a Python powered web app...oh and make all the lights flash like you are on the bridge of the USS Enterprise...but no exploding consoles!

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Friday Fun - Custom Key Holder

Taking a break from tech this week and in this post we learn how to convert a tool keychain into a folding keyholder.

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Friday Fun - Six New Projects!

Six new projects covering Python, Pi, Arduino and much more!

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